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Light travels in straight paths because of its reflection

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Does light travels in straight line?

Yes because, Light travels in a straight path called a light ray.


Why do light rays travel in straight lines?

It does not, it travels as a wave


What kind of wave does light travel in?

I have the straight answer from the Internet and my science teacher that light travels in the motion of waves.


How does light travel in straight lines and in waves?

Yes..according to rectillinear propagation of light must travell in straight line...it also travells in the form of wave


If light did not travel in a straight line?

Light is a particle that acts like a wave and therefore does not travel in a straight line. light has nothing to do with gravity, the fourth dimension or the 'fabric' of space time.


What type of wave does light travel as?

A sonic wave.


How does light travel in straight line?

It does not. It is a particle that acts like a wave


Can light wave travel through air?

Yes ,....... light wave can travel through the air ... the light wave does not require any medium.


What kind of wave does light travel as?

Light is an electromagnetic wave.


Can light travel in a straight lines in the same medium?

Yes. Light traveling in the same medium, travels in a straight path. It gets refracted only when it hits obliquely with another medium. In olden days scientists thought light is supposed to travel as a ray. Ray meant continuous passage of tiny particles. As understanding gets evolved now we think that light is an electromagnetic wave (not a mechanical wave). Mechanical wave certainly needs a material medium to get propagated where as the electromagnetic wave can even pass through free space, usually we call as vacuum. Its gets diffracted, that is bent at the edges of obstacles, when it meets such.


Why does light travel in straight lines give with evidence?

Yes there is. Your shadow is the simplest evidence that light travels in straight line. A solar eclipse is also evidence that light travels in straight lines, as is the fact that you cannot see around corners unless you use a mirror.


Why A light wave travels in a straight path until it hits an object What can it do?

It can be absorbed or transmitted through an object it can bend sometimes it bounces back 😉